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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: 79-character screen
Message-ID: <1776@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 03:08:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1776
Posted: Tue Oct  8 03:08:44 1985
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References: <70@druhi.UUCP> <336@uwvax.UUCP> <17@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <17@mit-eddie.UUCP> barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:

> ... [some terminals] scroll the screen if a character is output to the
> last column of the last line on the screen.  Since only 79 columns can
> be used on that line, only 79 columns may be used on the rest of the
> screen.

The final conclusion here is not really true, and I have thought
about `fixing' the problem in our local Emacs; it would be relatively
trivial---simply set the number of characters to

	width - (autowrap && line == length ? 1 : 0)

---but there is no real incentive since most of our local terminals
are automatically set to non-wrap mode while running Emacs.
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